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Today's special commission meeting in Winter Garden – called to address a controversy over the Pledge of Allegiance and public invocations – may start without either, according to the meeting agenda on the city website. Winter Garden's commission meetings traditionally begin with a call to order that includes both an invocation, which is a brief ceremonial prayer or reflection, and the recitation of the 31-word Pledge of Allegiance. One of the elected commissioners usually asks the assembled audience to stand, and most in attendance do. City Manager Mike Bollhoefer said he drafted today's agenda and left off the traditional opening because of the furor...

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Today's special commission meeting in Winter Garden – called to address a controversy over the Pledge of Allegiance and public invocations – may start without either, according to the meeting agenda on the city website.
Winter Garden's commission...

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